2) Look closely
at each picture (especially in the tortilla-making sequence)

What do
you think is happening?

What
sentence or caption would you write about the picture?

What
questions do you have?

Option:
Can you read any of the Spanish words or sentences? (You can look
some up in a Spanish/English dictionary or translate
them online.)Option: After looking at all
the pictures in the story, but not reading the English versions, write
one or more paragraphs that you think describe the process of making
tortillas from corn. Use descriptive words.

3) Click
to the English version of the page. How does it compare with your ideas
about what was happening? (Note: You can always click back and forth between
English and Spanish.)

4) Finally,
think about things you've observed or experienced with cooking and baking
at home and in your community. Use the graphic
organizer to the right (or make a Venn diagram) to show how Maria Luisa's
life compares with yours. You could compare these types of things:

cooking
and baking tools

ingredients

ways of
obtaining basic foods

common
foods

types
of flour used and eaten

time a
family spends preparing food

things
you eat that contain corn

ways a
community works together

5) Write
or tell a partner about how you would feel if you lived for a while in
Maria Luisa's family.

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